Tzan wrote:The only reason you should need to be connected is to share or get other peoples critters into your game. Which should be totally optional given all the penis monsters out there and the fact that most parents don't need their 10 year old complaining that their civilization got killed by a large angry penis.

for a lazy explanation, you follow a creature as it evolves from single-celled organism until it gets slightly more and more complex, until you have an inter-galactic starship traveling civilization. it's pretty cool.